I was inspired by a shirt at the LOFT the other day...
Sadly, it is no longer on their website, so I have no picture and no link, but it looked something similar to this shirt that I made:
The best thing about this project is that it doesn't have to be exact...
So put away the perfectionist in you, and get ready to get messy!
Materials Needed:
A plain t-shirt
T-shirt paint
Cardboard or paper plate
Tulle
Sequins
Thread
Needle
Scissors
*** FIRST, make sure that you have a piece of cardboard or something inside the shirt so that the paint won't bleed through! ***
Get your paint ready... I suggest squirting it onto a paper plate:
Then I finger painted the flowers onto the shirt:
Round the petals somewhat to make them look more real:
In the end I kind of smeared the flowers to get a messier effect:
Next, cut some flower petals out of tulle:
After the paint has dried, sew the tulle petals on top of some of the painted petals...
This does not have to be exact:
Sew clumps of sequins into the flower centers:
And that's it!
I love a project that is imperfectly perfect!
And cheap...
I spent $3.99 on the t-shirt, $.79 on sequins, and $1.00 on tulle...
everything else I already had on hand.
$5.78 to recreate a LOFT shirt... not bad! :]
I'm linking to these parties.
19 comments:
Another cool tutorial.
love it.
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Awesome! Did Joy make one too? Glad you had such a fun weekend and hope to see you soon!
ooooooooh!!!! I LOVE it girl!!! You are so freaking talented!! This looks AMAZING!!! :)
I love all these crafty projects you are creating!!!
Have a wonderful day beautiful!!!
xo
super cute, love it! your tutorials are ALWAYS awesome :)
you are the queen of the knockoff tutorials. i mean that as a compliment. :)
It turned out so pretty! Thanks for the tutorial :)
It's really cute Mandy!! I love the look of the tulle over the paint! How fun. :)
Very awesome! I envy your creativity :)
P.S. I linked to your yarn letter tutorial today on my blog!
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Cute remake!!
i love this!!
This is awesome, Mandy! I love that you finger painted it. It makes the project so unintimidating! :)
i think i know what shirts your talking about from the loft. i believe i was close to buying one. that knock off you made rocks! thanks for sharing the tutorial!
First it is too cute! Second, I love that you do not have to be perfect to make it - I like a good mess when I craft!
Love it!!! It looks great on you too! :) :)
oh wow! this is awesome! i LOVE LOFT and this shirt is soo great!!
Its so very cute! I came over from the Sugar Bee linky party as soon as I saw LOFT shirt knockoff and I'm glad I did. I'll be bookmarking this little tute for sure!
CUTE!!! Love your t-shirt and I really like projects that don't have to be 'perfect' :)
Oh my gosh, that's amazing, thank you!
This is so cute!!! I love that it is actually "finger" painting.
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